GOVERNMENT > Russian Empire [1400s-1917]
- capital was St. Petersburg
- czars ruled the country
- in the late 1800s Russia's economy went down
- the empire grew more
- Slavic territory
- Czars and people like Ivan the Terrible ruled the country
- Ivan the Terrible / Ivan the Awesome had a secret police and if you said anything bad about him to one of the police you would be sent to Siberia or basically killed
- czars and nobles had rich lives and ruled
- ruled by czars
- czar Alexander II freed the serfs
- czars gradually conquered surrounding territories